this puts a downloader program in my-documents
copy it to the dir you want to download Unleashed to
click it to download Unleashed

downloads all the files automatically
checks the md5sums so you are sure it downloaded ok

(actually, you would be sure that the files you download are identical to the files i have on my drive ... which may not be what Barry has on his drive)

an official md5sum file for the packages would be nice ... and Barry uploaded an md5sum file ... but the md5sums for most of the files i downloaded are not they same as the md5sums in the md5sum file)

the whole idea is to take the md5sums of your files, and if they match the md5sums of the files you downloaded, then you are sure your files are identical byte for byte to the original files, none missing, and no files extra

anyway, i made my own md5sum file, and downloaded unleashed 1.0.3 again, and the files were exact duplicates of the files i downloaded the first time

this installs top in /usr/bin
(this package does not register with PupGet, so if you upgrade, the top should be automatically uninstalled)
it also installs a library file (libproc.so) in my-applications/lib

Ahem . . . this seemed to be pointing to the GNU web page (from the wiki page)
so I did not know what it was. In a surge of uncharateristic bravery I though I best install it. As I am using 1.0.3 I probably no longer need it?

Am I safe? Do I need help? Uninstalling? Getpup uninstalls. Will there be a new DotPup/further integration? Info to the usual authorities . . .

top is a program written by Gnu ("Gnu's not Unix)
it is one of the basic utility programs, like ls, chmod, date, netstat .... (which is why the link to that page ... that's where you will find the source)

the basic Gnu Utilities are about 20 megs, zipped

Busybox is a program for smaller Linux implementations that replaces many of these utilities with one smaller executable file

for example, you can type busybox top to run the busybox equivalent of top ... or type busybox chmod to run busybox's equivalent of chmod ... all of these programs are all contained in one fairly small executable file

if a symlink to busybox is created called top, then busybox will run as if it were named top ... so running the symlink to busybox called top will run busybox's equivalent to top ... running the symlink to busybox called chmod will run busybox's equivalent to chmod

in the version of busybox that Puppy has, top doesn't work properly with the 2.6 kernel

my dotpup installs the real top Gnu-Utility program where the busybox symlink is (/usr/bin/top ... type which top

it's a small program ... works with either kernel ... it displays more information and can do more things than the busybox replacement

many of my dotpups have Uninstaller functions ... just click the dotpup again to uninstall the program ... i don't think my top dotpup has an uninstall function ... to uninstall, you can delete /root/.usr/bin/top (and probably reboot, or remount /usr ... unionfs doesn't seem to like it when you delete files behind it's back)

short answer ... you can install the top dotpup in any version of Puppy ... for older versions of Puppy in which /usr is read-only, you can install top in another dir that is writeable

Many thanks. Going to have a go at Monkey server. So far so good. I am not quite sure I can have a server if I have single static address with four computer nodes?

It is coming through an adsl/firewall

However the monkey has a cute smile and that is enough for me . . .

Downloaded and used the 1.0.3 ice menu - very good

. . . and while I am asking newby question
how do I zip/tar a file
using rox I would go to where the file is
open a terminal there with a right click
then what?
I am trying to upload a sound file in one of these allowed files to the forum
ace gtar gz pup rar tar zip

Would gz be the best for compression?_________________Puppy WIKILast edited by Lobster on Fri 24 Jun 2005, 01:48; edited 1 time in total

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